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Parent topics
- Pre-Socratic philosophy [r]: Early Greek philosophers who researched and theorised about natural philosophy and cosmology. [e]
Subtopics
- Materialism [r]: A world view that attributes to matter the status of the underlying constituent of nature, and excludes any explanations of reality that could not be reduced to physics. [e]
- Monism [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other ancient Greek philosophers
- Anaximander [r]: (fl. early 6th c. BC) A Greek philosopher who held that the primary principal of the world consisted of a boundless, non-material entity which underlay the world and its various changes. [e]
- Anaximenes [r]: (6th c. BC) Greek philosopher who sought to explain the phenomena of the universe in terms of the various manifestations of a single element and thus became the first to attempt to explain qualitative differences in terms of quantitative ones. [e]
- Pythagoras [r]: Greek mathematician and thinker of the 6th century BCE. [e]
- Heraclitus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Parmenides [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zeno of Elea [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Empedocles [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anaxagoras [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ancient Atomists [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Leucippus [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Democritus [r]: (c. 494 - c. 404 BC) Greek natural philosopher who promulgated the atomic theory, which asserted that the universe is composed of two elements: the atoms and the void in which they exist and move. [e]